Job 12:13–25

¹³With him is wisdom and might; he hath counsel and understanding. ¹⁴Behold, he breaketh down, and it is not built again; he shutteth up a man, and there is no opening. ¹⁵Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; and he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth. ¹⁶With him is strength and effectual knowledge; the deceived and the deceiver are his. ¹⁷He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and judges maketh he fools; ¹⁸He weakeneth the government of kings, and bindeth their loins with a fetter; ¹⁹He leadeth priests away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty; ²⁰He depriveth of speech the trusty, and taketh away the judgment of the elders; ²¹He poureth contempt upon nobles, and slackeneth the girdle of the mighty; ²²He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out into light the shadow of death; ²³He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them; he spreadeth out the nations, and bringeth them in; ²⁴He taketh away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste. ²⁵They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunkard.